Meeped vs Meeked - What's the difference?
meeped | meeked |
(meep)
a nonsense word, imitating an animal's cry, or a car's horn
* ???', , ''Meep the Baby Martin'', published in ''Soviet Literature: Issues 7-12'' in ' 1983 :
* 2006 , Dave Bidini, The Five Hole Stories , page 62:
an endearing term of affection between lovers
* 2012 , B. E. Josephman, Lilium Love Stories , page 607:
to make a high-pitched exclamation
* 2005 , John Gardner, October Light , page 126:
* 2005 , Rachel Caine, Chill Factor , page 103:
* 2007 , Pat Schmatz, Circle the Truth , page 188:
(meek)
Humble, modest, meager, or self-effacing.
* 1848:
* "Blessed are the meek , for they shall inherit the earth" (Matthew 5:5)
Submissive, dispirited.
* 1920: , Main Street [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=432765822&tag=Lewis,+Sinclair:+Main+Street,+1920&query=+meek&id=LewMain]
As verbs the difference between meeped and meeked
is that meeped is (meep) while meeked is (meek).meeped
English
Verb
(head)meep
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- "Meep, meep, meep! " echoed his brothers and sisters. They all felt pleased with themselves for having learnt to call their mother [...]
- "We gave him three nervous breakdowns, you know," he says, waving his fingers in the rear view.
- "Listen, I..."
- "I've heard this kind of thing before. The English think the French are little blind dogs. Meep meep meep meep meep ," he says, performing a talking pantomime with his hand.
Synonyms
* beepNoun
(en noun)- Brett poked Erica on the nose and said, "You are my little meep!"
Verb
(en verb)- He cried out, as if he meant it as a joke, "When I was Richard's age I nearly died of pneumonia." "Darling, it is cold," Ariah meeped , and put her mitten on his.
- "See that guy down there?" Jonathan asked, and tilted my chair up on its front legs to give me a better view. I meeped and clutched the chair arms harder. "No? Well, okay, granted, they all look alike from up here. Here, I'll help." My forehead touched the glass. It rippled like water, and I melted right through the slick, cold surface, [...]
- Rith stayed where he was, watching the silhouette of the cat in the darkness. She sat perfectly still and watched him back. Then she meeped and looked at the stairs.
Anagrams
*meeked
English
Verb
(head)meek
English
Adjective
(er)- Mrs. Wickam was a meek woman...who was always ready to pity herself, or to be pitied, or to pity anybody else...
- What if they were wolves instead of lambs? They'd eat her all the sooner if she was meek to them. Fight or be eaten.